The good podcast about bad media influences. Hosts @rjmcculloch and https://xitter.cf/t.co/oFe8gImq9w
Joined September 2023
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✨ Our SMIDGE colleague @NybroPetersen presented her research at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield! 🎉Her talk, All the World’s a Clue: Forensic Play as Participatory Practice between Fandom and Conspiracy Theories, explored the overlap between fan culture and conspiracy theories.
This panel highlighted how fan-like practices influence political propaganda and online radicalization. Insightful research into how online communities shape narratives in unexpected ways!
#DigitalCulture #FanStudies #ConspiracyTheories #MediaStudies #ParticipatoryCulture
#InternetResearch #Fanspiracy
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We are having a summer break. This gives you the perfect opportunity to catch up with anything you've not listened to! Our episodes so far!
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This is as upsetting to us as it is to you, but to understand the modern American right then you also need to understand the last 40 years of pro wrestling.
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"We are keen to blame anything from smartphones to social media to video games for the problems that our kids are experiencing – anything, that is, except ourselves."
Brilliant piece by @kezamacdonald explaining why young people are 'addicted' to video games. theguardian.com/games/articl…
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Excited to announce two related publications from the latest issue of MOVIE! 1) My interview with Richard Dyer about aesthetics and textual analysis; 2) an audiovisual essay of sorts, inspired by one strand of our conversation, 'Reading With the Grain'. Extract here, links below.
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Out early in time for Thursday's UK general election.
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We submitted the proposal in February 2022, signed the contract that April and have just submitted the final manuscript! Thanks to our amazing contributors. We're super proud of the book and you should be too.
Did we just hand over the full manuscript to the publisher? YES, WE (@memories_child and @illeffectspod's Ben & me) DID! Participatory Culture Wars, coming soon...
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Really fascinating discussion of the controversy over kids trying wrestling moves at home in the late 90s and early 00s, and what it tells us about the relationship between different parts of the American right at that time.
New episode!
Did pro wrestling make kids try this at home?
Parents Television Council Vs World Wrestling Federation
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New episode reminder. I'll post more about this in the coming weeks but this is an episode about how a feud between the WWF and the Parents Television Council helps explain the weirdness of the modern republican party.
New episode!
Did pro wrestling make kids try this at home?
Parents Television Council Vs World Wrestling Federation
open.spotify.com/episode/7cr…
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I do resent how the humanities are the favored academic punching bag when there are entire fields of the social sciences that are built on smoke, mirrors, and fraud. There are whole disciplines — well-funded disciplines! — that seemingly can’t replicate a study. It’s maddening.
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So I wrote a piece for @ConversationUK on Baby Reindeer and the ethical considerations streaming platforms and broadcasters must grapple with.
Baby Reindeer: fans will always go sleuthing so real people must be better protected theconversation.com/baby-rei…
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New episode of In Defense of Fandom is out today, which means I’ve got to do a little thread about it🧵
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Check out the latest podcast from MGC member Ben Litherland, with his podcast @illeffectspod....
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@illeffectspod having already covered video nasties and the notion that violent videos are bad for kids, i think there's lots of potential for a sister episode on the flipside of that debate!
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I'm quoted in this Cosmo article about the romcom trope of 'enemies-turned-lovers'. Less fulsomely than I would have been had I not expressed some skepticism about its @illeffectspod-style argument about the trope being socially harmful, I suspect! But nice nonetheless.
Behind the ‘enemies to lovers’ romcom trope: Why do we fancy people we hate? cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex…
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NEW POST: On how the popular association of Britpop with New Labour shifted after their 1990s dalliance, through the remainder of Labour's time in office, and after it was replaced by the Coalition government. Link to newsletter in profile; all reposts much appreciated (1/5)
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ALT Coming down from ‘Cocaine Socialism’ After their 1990s zenith, Britpop and New Labour were frequently evoked to denigrate each other, until a shifting political and cultural climate brought about a re-valuation of their relationship.
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People talk about "girlies on booktok" in the same way that people during the Victorian times thought women shouldn't read because they were too delicate and would be easily influenced by reading.
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Have you ever wanted to learn about Fast and Furious in the context of academia? Now you can! With @podcast_curious
Listen to our chat with co-creators Charisse L'Pree and Bob Thompson here: amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/202…
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Essential reading for anyone here debating and discussing the latest sweeping claims about technology and young people. Strong priors and personal politics easily get in the way of critically looking at the data and designs. If we don't, #moralpanic will reign.
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